That Fatal Sneeze

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The chase continues onto the surface. The professor meets a group of prehistoric women, who flee when other monsters appear. The professor's wife finds him sleeping in the laboratory, surrounded by fossils, and wakes him with water from a siphon. This short film is only viewable at the BFI, and its generally believed to be the first film depiction of dinosaurs, here accomplished through the use of simple pantomime costumes.

Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.

A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

Two young men help two girls escape.

A woman agrees to kiss the winner of a race between a horse and a motorcar.

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

Three suitors try to impress a girl by chasing her all over the place. Finally she makes her choice.

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.